In toronto and across canada
there
were
demonstrations
sponsored
by
the
Vietnam
These last few days of protest
committee;
5,000
against
the amchitka
blast in mobilization
out in toronto.
general have been unknown
in people turned
canada before. The range of op- Waterloo sent down its contingent
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position went from trudeau and 100 of cars and a bus.
mp’s to various left parties.
Even
though
it rained,
the
stayed to hear the
November
3rd
saw
8,000 demonstrators
before the
demonstrating
before
the U.S. long list of speakers
,consulate in toronto and there was blast took place, either standing in
the rain or under the city hall
a rally of up to 300 and a contingent
of 150 who went down to the U.S. overhang.
The day ended with a vigil at the
border at sarnia with 300 W.L.U.
U.S. consulate at five and then the
students. It continued on thursday
crowd
dispersed
when george
with a march
of 50 through
Waterloo to U of W ending in a addison of the VMC called for the
demonst@ion
to
end
and not open
teach-in of 120.
up the action to slander by the
Saturday then came and merged
press through some incident.
the amchitka
protest
with the
An analysis
of these protests
international
protest against the
would have to recognize that there
U.S. intervention
in south-east
were three types of protests going
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on and three types of leadership.
Last Wednesday,
for example,
there were two actions heid at the
same time.
One at the sarnia border and the
other a rally led mainly by the
campus
Vietnam
mobilization
committee.
The latter felt that
involvement
of masses of students
and making the point of the whole
demonstration
clear were the
crucial
aspects of a successful
action while the other group felt
the true objectors would ‘put their
body on the line’ and use direct
action to attempt to stop the blast.
The last group is a new element
in politics, that is the usually nonpolitical
student
like the environmental
school and pollution
probe.
The VMC plans to continue
peaceful
demonstrations
in the
future to oppose the U.S. military.

unpublicized

The public may not be aware of it, but a public
hearing on employment
and welfare recipients
is
scheduled for kitchener
this Wednesday.
The provincial
task force on “employment
opportunities for welfare recipients”
will be holding its
first of five hearings in five Ontario communities.
The task force will meet 8 pm tomorrow
at kitchener-Waterloo
collegiate,
787 king west in kitchener.
The four-man
force, a creation
of the Ontario
department of social and family services, will report
its findings to the minister in about two months.
It will be chaired by barry swandron,
a toronto
lawyer.
According
to a spokesman for the kitchener
social
planning council, a general statement about the task

force was issued some time ago, but no publicity has
been given the Wednesday meeting locally in the past
weeks, as far as the council knows.
But, said the spokesman,
Wednesday’s meeting will
evidently be an open hearing, relying upon testimony
and briefs from local welfare
recipients
and interested persons and agencies.
The spokesman said that he did not know how an
effective public response would be possible without
prior notice of the meeting.
He said, however, there are indications
publicity
will be given the hearing starting yesterday
(monday).
This does not seem sufficient time for proper briefs
to be drawn up by citizens.
Perhaps the hearing could be set back to a later
date, and sufficient warning given.

University
of Waterloo student,
richard lloyd, will be a candidate
for a water100 city council seat on
december 6.
Lloyd’s platform
centres on the
need for more communication
with
council and the preservation
of the
quality of life in Waterloo.
The city should encourage such
segments
of the community
as
tenants,
senior
citizens,
rate
payers, and welfare recipients
to
form organizations
to represent
their members’
views to council,
according
to lloyd.
He feels that the city should not
encourage
growth
for growth’s
sake but should strive for a more
“natural
growth”
which
would
consider
such things
as the
resources of the area, the effect on
the life of the residents,
and
economics.
He says that this is a
particularly
important
issue in the
light of the recent reports by the
Ontario
water
resources
commission.
If we plan our growth carefully,
we may be able to continue to use
ground water supplies. If we do
not, we will have to get water
elsewhere,
perhaps
from a lOOmillion-dollar
lake erie pipeline.
This would require
the area to
grow considerably
so that there
would be sufficient
industries
sharing the cost .of the pipeline.
Most of the pressure
for this
growth originates from developers
and‘ speculators
who have little
stake in the community.
Lloyd feels that we should not
turn over control of the city to
these people.
Lloyd is also against regional
government
because he thinks it
could be the first step in a great
lakes megopolis.
He says the
concept
has been very poorly
researched.
and offers
only intangible benefits. Waterloo needs a
greater degree of autonomy if it is
to avoid the rapid expansion that
kitchener is planning for the doon

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village area to its south.
The university
of waterloo has
ignored its impact on the city of
Waterloo.
He refers
to the
university ‘s refusal
to provide
sufficient
residences
for its
growing student population.
This
has not only caused much trouble
for students
attempting
to find
suitable
housing,
but has also
forced
the construction
of a
disproportionate
number
of
apartment
buildings in the north
end of Waterloo. The uniGersity
should work with the city in
planning future growth so as to
lessen its impact on the city.
Lloyd supports the subsidy of
mass transit.
If a good service
were provided
it would be used
more and reduce the subsidy. At
any rate, says lloyd, it costs the
city far more for an expressway
system than it would for a good
mass transit
system.
The enormous amount of land needed for
expressways
could be better used
for parks.
He says that welfare should be a
federal-provincial
responsibility
as it puts too much pressure
on
cities,
which
results
in the
mistreating
of recipients,
and a
frenzy on the part of the city to
grow to provide more jobs. This
does little good as the unemployment is caused by federal and
provincial
policies.
Lloyd
has been a Waterloo
resident for over three years. His
summer
job
in community
television
programming
provided
a chance to become involved
in
depth in the affairs of the city.
On campus,
lloyd
was
a
federation
of students
council
member for engineering
for two
years. He has been running pubs
and dances for the federation
for
over two years.
This term he
became
chairman
of
the
federation’s
landlord-tenants
committee. He also does a show for
radio Waterloo.

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Why can’t the environmental
studies society run a
cokmachine
in their building? “Because.”
says bill
deakes, responsible
for blocking the society’s
move.
Mike fenton, past chairman
of the society, sees
deakes’ action’as a “rip-off move” by the administration.
Fenton is chairing a group that is looking into the
reasons for removing
the machine.
The coke machine has been in the lounge since
Oct. 27. Kitchener
beverages,
the controlling
forces
who have a monopoly on the vending machines, want
to prevent any others on campus.
Deakes planned to organize a meeting with Burt
Mathews on monday if any attempt
was made to
remove the machines.

Geography club
There will be an organizational
meeting for the
geography
club at 11:30 thursday
in hum. 237.
There is concern as to making this club a functional
and responsible
one. Officers for the rest of the year
will be elected and a budget drawn up. Any interested
profs or students
are urged to attend.

Math society
The first
issue of math medium,
the official
newspaper
of the math society, was published
on
Wednesday
last. Copies
are available
in the
mathsock
office.
Math society is planning a lecture series based on
the math curriculum.
Lectures will be presented
atfl
various times through
the year outlining
the math
courses available.
Questions
for next year’s anti-calendar
are now
being distributed
all this term, in half courses. So if
you want to give your opinion of your profs, and help
all those nubile frosh, this is the time to do it. Go to
class.
There will be a mathsock
meeting on thursday,
november
11 at 3:30 pm in mc 5045.

Arts society ,
Elections
for english and drama society will be
held this Wednesday
in hum. 162. Balloting will
continue
from 9 am until 4 pm, for the positions
president,
vice-president,
secretary-treasurer,
student
advisor,
and faculty
advisor.
All society
members are urged to vote, and attend the meeting
in hum. 162 at 8:30 that evening.

Flesh vote

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Don’t dispair,
all you flesh freaks;
the skin
referendum
was defeated, 1278 to 608. Does this
mean that naked ladies will no longer be seen in-the
brothels of uniwat? The final decision now rests with
the federation
council.

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Perhaps you count brilliants to put you to sleep.
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sizes. Let us show you our widf and sparkling
s‘election. We’ll dazzle you with scores of
blazing shapes . . .-until you find
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A&s society
The newly-formed
arts society council
met last
thursday
for the first time.
The first item discussed was the validity of the new
constitution.
David chappely, society treasurer,
will
lead a committee
to investigate
this.
Philip benovoy, society president,
announced
that
he had received 2604 dollars from the federation
of
students.
This represents
60 percent
of the total
amount, the rest coming on january 1.
s
Benovoy feels that this is not enough to cover all
the clubs and societies within the arts society.
“Some clubs have budgets from 1000 to 1800
dollars,” he remarked.
As a result, Benovoy has petitioned the arts faculty for an additional 5,000 dollars.
He will be informed this week, if his plea has been
successful.
On thursday,
the money will be divided
among the groups under the arts society.
Benovoy stated that the prime purpose
of the
meeting was “to find out what they expect from the
executive.”

Ukranian club
Other items discussed
were the arts ball, meet the
president
night, and the best teaching award. Any
arts student
wishing a 2.50 refund may obtain it
from the arts society
office any time this week.
A
Elections were held for the,vacant
executive positions in the ukranian
club on Wednesday
evening,
november
3. The new officers
are as follows;
president,
martha-v&a
lasichuk,
vice-president,
Walter korobalo;
treasurer,
boris andrushko.
lmss barabash,
the former
president,
had been
involved in a serious accident just before the term,
and is now recovering.
The ukranian club is planning a variety of activities
for its members, including a concert onfebruary
20,
1972, in the humanities
theatre,
displaying
the
talents of the ukranian group in ethnic bances and
songs.
Students are reminded that the club has a campus
mail box, at the federation
office, and a phone, for
any inquiries, please call 576-2968.

bertolt
brecht,
author
of
now playing
at the st.
lawrence centre theatre, that kind
of theatre
was disgusting.
He
‘another branch of the
bourgeois drug traffic’ ; culinary
theatre he termed it. The audience
suffers,
laughs,
is transported as if by a drug an’d- goes
home with the play well digested
without a trace._ of_ the experience
remaining with them.
Galileo is the story of the father
of modern. physics,
told on a
beautiful, almost bare, completely
white stage. The set by murray
lauffer is quite simply great.

Instead of making any attempt
to imitate the decor of that period,
he creates a time out of historical
time with his pure white stage and
white office chairs. Overhead
a
gold canopy of raised figureshere an arm, there a leg---conjures
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The play is composed of thirteen
loosely strung together episodes.
Brecht did not believe in mounting
climaxes
and well constructed
scenes. In kurt reis’s production at
the st. lawrence centre the scenes
flow one into the, other almost
lyrically.
They take us from 1609 td 1637 as
we follow galileo almost step by
step
in
his
revolutionary
discoveries-and
revolutionary
they are, for if the earth revolves
around the sun where is heaven?
Where does god reside if there is no
heaven, the priests ask galileo?
Within
us or nowhere,
replies
galileo.
. He is a passionate
believer
in
man and reason.
However
the
church strongly encourages galileo
to keep quiet about his discoveries.
Thus he retires for eight years,
devoting
his time to floating
bodies-a
church
approved
subject-and
fine wines-a
not so wellapproved subject.
Galileo can resist neither, being
a sensualist;
insatiable knowledge
is a pleasure to him like a wine. He
cannot help but indulge himself.
Brecht
himself
felt that the
sensual
pleasure
of inquiry
of
finding out,,is on the same plane as
the pleasures involved in sex.
Tony palmer gives a fine performance as galileo, a role which is
difficult
to portray-this
great,
huge man whose love of knowledge
is the same as his love of good food.

Made to recant
When
galileo’s
friend,
a
mathematician
called barberini,
becomes
pope he is once more
hopeful that his theories may be
accepted.
However,
in one
masterful,
unf orgeta ble scene the
pope is convinced that galileo must
be made to recant.
The cardinal
inquisitor
circles
like a vulture round the pope who
stands dead centre being slowly
-attired in his robes. The inquisitor
is terrifying,
relentless. With each
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new garment,
symbol
of the _
church’s authority
and power, the
pope becomes
more and more
convinced until, when completely
dressed, he agrees.
I The scene is electric, tense. John
barron
as I the pope and gary
reineke as the cardinal inquisitor
have the rhythm of the scene just
right and it works beautifully.
’
Galileo recants his discoveries
for fear of being tortured.
His
friends and colleagues can hardly
believe it. ‘Pity the land that has no
heroes’ his old student sarti says;
‘Pity the land’ that needs heroes’
replies galileo.

Frustrated daughter
In the last scene we find galileo
in isolation in the country under
the watchful
eye of his pious
frustrated
daughter.
He has
feigned blindness
and has been
able to write his discorsi at night.
‘His pupil sarti comes to visit and
when
he sees
the discorsi
apologizes for thinking galileo a
coward. He had merely recanted
so that he could continue to serve
science. Galileo corrects him.
Tony palmer handles this scene
well, one minute in anguish of guilt
confessing
that he has betrayed
science and humanity,
the next
happily reconciled
to the pleasure
of a well cooked goose.
Galileo’s writing of his discorsi
which
laid the foundation
,for
physics is seen than nothing more
than his self-indulgence
in sensual
pleasure.
In the middle of writing
this
version, the atomic bomb made its
debut at hiroshima.
This changed
‘brecht’s
ideas
about
galileo.
Scientists
must realize a moral
responsibility
for their knowledge.

Accept responsibility
-Science, brecht believed, is only
valid insofar as it makes life better
for everybody.
If scientists do not
accept responsibility
for the way
their knowledge is used, and bow to
authority
as galileo
did, their
discoveries
can become nothing
more than fresh means of oppression.
. The day is coming, says galileo,
when the gulf between humanity
and science will be so wide that the
scientists’
triumphal
cry
of
jubiliation
over
some
new
achievement
could be greeted by a
scream of horror from mankind.
As you can see,. Galileo is not
merely a recounting
of historical
events. It is especially relevant to
what is happening right now.
The
production
is overall
smooth, well done. The play is not
a cathartic
experience.
It is
designed to make you think, and
the production
at the st. lawrence
succeeds in making one wonder
about things in the play long after
it is over.
One thing I wondered about was
the audience.
Brecht
believed
theatre is for the workers, yet the
audience was composed mostly of
society charity. ball type workers,
chic and glittering,
discussing
their clothes
and drinking,
expensive
drinks
in
the
intermissions.
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McCabe

and Mrs. Miller

Pull together a big name cast,
western-frontier
setting, unlimited
funds and what typically
emerges
is a rather bagged-out
adventure
guaranteed to appeal to those hung
up on nostalgia and blood. McCabe
and Mrs. Miller fits the outline but
manages, between camera genius
and acting and directing talent, to
produce an intricate
and moving
c I
film.
John mccabe (warren
beatty),
as a petty
gambler-comebusinessman,
undertakes
to introduce
presbyterian
church,
a
female-starved
and ragged mining
town, to the pleasures
of the
brothel, in order, of course, to line
his own pockets;
mccabe,
who
should have been destined for the
security of small gains and minor
failings, has his life turned topsyturvy
by allowing
mrs. miller
(julie Christie)
to influence
his
venture.
Mrs. miller,
a down-to-earth
cockney
whore who tickles
mc
cabe’s fancy while slapping
his
ego, literally
shames
him into
believing that making money and
. giving quality in return are inseparable.
Tornado-like
she
mccabe’s
string of
transforms
three haggard
‘chippies’
into a
cedar-and-whitewash
bawdyhouse
with a complement
of imported
professionals;
exuding
friendliness and refinement,
the house
soon becomes a local institution,
successfully
replacing the church
as indispensable in overcoming
the
miners’ loneliness.
As could be guessed mccabe’s

sun sets rather rapidly due to his
own greed, the sequence infused
with a certain tragedy due to the
awkward
naievety through which
he creates his own demise. It is this
undoing, brought about by hired
killers in the pay of a large corporate syndicate to which mccabe
has refused to sell his holdings,
which makes the movie poignant
and pushes it beyond schmaltz. MC
‘cabe maintains
his ‘smallness’
to
the end, neither
w-inning
the
gunfight nor wifing-it
with mrs.
miller,
comfortably
free from
‘great man’ attributes.
McCabe and Mrs. Miller could be
viewed for camerawork
alone; a
smooth and penetrating
use of
techniques-from
surreal shadings
to fade-in focuses which juxtapose
the natural
against
the manworked-all
serving to sensitively
enhance the mix of themes and
ultimately
giving the movie its
bite.
Co-ordinately
the
director
succeeds in creating a movement
which, through a rugged and accurate portrayal
of mining town
life, denies the audience the usual
cop-out of losing itself in the story
of the major characters.
Story and
setting are, in my opinion, a means
used to get at the larger drama
which
underlay
all individual
adventure on the frontier;
the film
allows us to experience a plausible
emotional
context which infuses
the people characterized
with life
rather than mechanically
serving
them up in banal stereotypes.
The acting is, good . throughout ; it

is, however, ancillary in the major
characters-especially
as compared to the wealth of realistic
thumb-nail
sketches of townsfolk,
usually employed merely as fodder
in the ‘classical’
western.
Julie Christie does well with a
captivating
interpretation
of the
self-possessed
harlot with enough
moxy to achieve dominion of her
own; producing a character who is
neither salon-girl nor degenerate,,
she effects a synthesis
of impatience and resignation
which is
as real as the needs of the men
from whom she makes a living.
Beatty’s role is somewhat
less
demanding inasmuch as mccabe’s
character
doesn’t differ radically
from
that of Clyde barrowbabyfaced
and inwardly
afraid,
given to buffoonery,
mccabe lives
as much through masks as did
Clyde,
though
perhaps
more
genuinely.
Beatty’s
work
with
nuance is, however, powerful and
innovative,
resulting
in several
excellent
muttering
soliloquies.
All of this is certainly
overly
zealous-McCabe
and Mrs. Miller
is definitely
not a milestone.
However by default, and insofar as
it opens up the possibility
of reappropriating
the west as fruitful1
film subject
matter
by going
beyond the john Wayne hackneyidiom, the film has considerable
significance.
In the end it can be recommended on all levels as good er
tertainment,
plain and simpl
Moreover, if a frog did have wing::
he wouldn’t
bump his ass so
much-right?
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Reclaiming
the
Canadian
Economy:
A Swedish
Approach
Through
Functional
Socialism, by
G. Adler-Karlsson,
Anansi Press,
1970.

Prefatory
note: It is almost impossible to convey in words the
sense of irritation
and frustration
brought
on by reading
and
reviewing
this book. Criticizing
it
is rather like attacking
a huge
latex blob with a baseball bat.
Despite some vicarious
satisfaction, there
still -remains
the
nagging knowledge that it is still
there, not affected in the least by
your attentions. Smugness and inane pragmatism
carried
to the
level of dogma make constructive
criticism
impossible.
Other than an eleven page introduction
by abraham
rotstein,
this book does not concern itself
with canada at all, as the title
seems to suggest.
The book is
merely
an incredibly
simpleminded attempt to justify rightwing social democracy,
under the
guise of Swedish
“functional
socialism”.
The name of functional socialism
is. derived
from
the authors
premise that the end of socialism is
to bring the private control of the
means
of
production
and
distribution
under public control.
This may be done in two ways,
according
to adler-karlsson.
The
first is the direct
socialization
of the means of production,
an
approach which leads to .uncomfortable social upheaval. Since, according to the authors definition,
ownership consists solely of a set of

control functions
over the economic life of a country, one can accomplish
the same thing by restricting
private
capital’s
free
hand in this area.
A neat argument against radical
socialist proposals.
Unfortunately
it is won on the grounds
of a
definitional
tautology.
If one accepts his definition
of socialism
and his definition of ownership, the
rest of the argument
follows like
the right side of an equation.
Obviously
socialism
and ‘ownership constitute
much more than
adler-karlsson’s
definitions.
This
matter could be belaboured much
more but it seems rather pointless.
Armed
with ‘this tautological
framework,
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upon it fearlessly
in order to -erect
a model of socialist society that
would set the most liberal of hearts
aglow. Socialist society would not
consist
of a working
class
hegemony but rather of pluralistic
control.
All those groups which
have a stake in the productive
life
of the country-labour,
management, stock-holders,
the statewould meet around the bargaining
table to arrive at the public good.
Under this system, according
to
the author, the working class must
be ‘“responsible”
in its demands. It
should acept the basic fact of
economic life that its share of the
economic “pie” will not increase.
Its role is to work in concert with
the other interest groups in order
to make the economic pie bigger.
Thus socialist society is equated
with economic efficiency
and the
size of the G.N.P. Attempts
to
change the authority
structure,
work
environment,
the value
system, etc., are totally idealistic
and meaningless
in the tintext
of
adler-karlsson’s
model.
There seems to be little use in
saying
that any resemblance
between the author’s ideal society
and socialism
is purely
coincidental,
that his theories
are
formulated
totally in the framework of bourgeois philosophic
categories if not bourgeois ideology,
that it is totally uncritical
and justificatory
etc., etc., etc. I suppose
the only decent question that may
be asked is “what has happened to
human beings in swedjsh
functional socialism”?
Then again that
question too seems rather spurious.
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The acting for the most part
revealed just the broad outlines of
the characters.
While the play was
still thoroughly
intelligible,
full
characters
like elizabeth
honsberger’s
wife
of the prime
minister make for a smoother flow
of perception.
Another obstacle to
this flow, and a major one, was the
rushing through of speeches. On at
least three occasions
an actor

would continue
his lines right
through audience laughter.
The addition
of a narrator
worked
quite well for the performance,
not only in providing
background
for the play, but also
in
creating
the
brechtian
‘alienation effect’ that mr. evans
was attempting.
In order that the
audience be kept from more than
intellectual
involvement
in the
play, house lights are left on;
actors step outside the action of the
play to speak directly
to the
audience ; and stage crew participate directly in the play rather
than remain behind the. scene. So
even so-called
‘touching
scenes’
are to be viewed cooly and not as
catharsis,
It is hard to say how valuable the
‘alienation
effect’
is in Lady
Precious
Stream.
Perhaps
you
could gather some answer from
others who saw the play. But
perhaps the play ought only to be
considered
an--entertaining--exercise in drama.

I

per mi,le

a car for one

however, it seemed to have passed
unnoticed. Perhaps because I am
male I would have liked him to
stand a bit more vividly
in the
male-female,
bluster-cunning
conflict. Of course, on the female
side all was not. wit either for the
prime minister
had a daughter
who was as stupid as she was
quick-tongued.
Little
need be said of the
costumes. When you consider that
a cast of almost twenty are decked
out in satin-sequined
garments
of
various patterns
and colours you
may realize just how visually
exciting the play was.

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The plot-line
seemed only *an
excuse for the comedy. By itself, it
is thoroughly
uninteresting
: clever-rich -girl leaves family to marry
poor poet who becomes rich and
famous. But if that plot is clothed
in satire, marvellous
costumes,
a
large array of characters,
and an
oriental aura, it makes for a full
evening of entertainment.
The comedy consisted mainly in
the development
of the old theme
of the proportions
of female-male
power,
or, rather
the relative
strengths
of blustering
pretence
and cunning. Only on& man, the
elder son of the prime minister, did
not suffer from female connivance.
His wit w?s so unexpected,

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It seems we can count on
maurice
evans to direct
good
comedies. This past week’s Lady
Precious Stream provided
ful’ther
basis for this expectation.
It may
have been that the play was not
Chinese at all but ‘that did not
matter. It was fun to watch.

to
Europe & Britain I

I’d never heard of margaret
atwood. One day, last year, in the
city hotel, I started reading her
Power Politics,
somewhere
between sobriety
and drunkeness.
_I
gave my copy, a gift of a woman
who liked her work, to a friend, and
so, while farming
through
the
summer,
couldn’t
get into her
anymore. When I was heavily into
the peace movement several years
ago some people used to consider
me a cultural
boor. Instead
of
going to the border or the toronto
demonstration
last week, I atatwood’s
tended
margaret
readings.
I never realized, until I got into
c.p. snow’s Two Cultures,
how
much our ideas are distorted
by
the huge chasm between literature
and science. As a grad student in
psychology,
I got reading
c.p.
snow’s The Search, and the hangups of ‘doing science’ (a real oversimplification
> and the characterization of human
stories
were
joined for the first
time. So,
several years later, I went to hear
atwood open to integrate the “two
cultures”.
I came away from her
reading a little enlightened,
but
purged of my previous
naivete
ab?ut how easy such an integration
would be.
I have little’ to say about atwood’s poetry. I, understandably,
experience it differently
than she. I
believe that she has begun to articulate the machine-like
‘human’
relations that are occurring
in all
state capitalist
societies.
Her
perceptions
are part of the shift
towards
phenomenological
insights about ourselves and away
from the detached
schizoid,
objectivist approaches
(scientism)
. I
was struck by the similarity
of her
Power
Politics
and r.d. laing’s
“analytic
poetry” in his Knots.
Her poetry is then a part of our
deepening
awareness
about the
ways we perpetuate our structured
oppression by mutually
enslaving
each
other
inter
(and
intra Jpersonally .
But atwood, apparently,
would
not like to be seen in this light. It
seems that big A art is still too
rooted in the repressed
(this holds
more for written than visual art > to
be searching
for ‘an integration
with other ways to perceive
and
conceive.
Language is, after0 all,
exceptionally
limiting,
though
english, and hence this piece, more
so than Chinese. No matter what
the reason, however,
it seemed
that atwood was not able to grasp

that since science is an art and
hence the chasm between the two
cultures is really a social problem,
the more
esoteric
notions
of
poetry,
the ones complimenting
the antagonistic,
esoteric notions
of science, need rethinking.
Atwood provided us with all the
hang-ups
of esoteric,
self -conscious art. In replying to the many
vital questions raised, she said, in
part :
“Words have an intrinsic meaning...“,
“When
a poem is written
it is
disregarded
and becomes a thing.,.“,
“I am not my poems. I am not a piece of
paper with words on it...“.

The interesting
thing is how
these views of art are quite similar
to those in science that reinforce
the very antagonism
between art
and science.
That may
seem
strange.
Big A art and big S
science,
with
an underlying
commonality.
The treatment
of
language as a ‘thing’ the hang-up
of western culture from Plato to
today, rather than as an aspect of
behavior
(not in the behaviorist
sense) may have some credibility
within pure math, and their baby
the computer
(with the help of
engineers who put themselves
out
of work), but, even in this realm, it
is a deception to think that symbols
have an essence.
Abstractions,
whether words or
math, do not come out of a third
realm
(besides
things and animals-humans
included
in the
latter)
of being. The notion of
language as a thing, with intrinsic
meanings, is powerful in linguistic
theory, but as we begin to understand language, structured as it
may be for. the purposes of analysis,
as mediation,
not as
essence, this view will definitely
decline. The fact that we have so
much trouble seeing it this way has
to do, ironically,
with the kinds of
‘human’ relations
that atwood’s
Power Politics describes.
Only if
science and technology are finally
seen to be mediations
Jarbitrary,
undemocratic
ones at present) and
not causes will we be likely to go
beyond the power politics that lead
to the amchitkas
the world over.
I don’t believe
that atwood
believes that a poem is words on a
page, but her artism leads to that
kind of objectivism.
Yet poetry
wishes to resist such objectivism.
The problem is deeper in human
culture than was ever articulated
at the poetry reading.
Atwood also said in response to
questions :

“A poet who writes
for a political
movement writes poor poetry...”

The dissociation
of art from all
questions of politics is as mechanical, and insensitive as is the sociaiist realist
reduction
of art to
vulgar matters
of political
strategy. The dichotomy
is primitive,
and archaic.
Yet the discussion
kept sliding towards it. 1[ suspect
fhat a false view of langaage,
meaning and truth on both sideq;
partly explains this. And again,
ironically,
it is rooted
in the
cstrangcmcnt
of us from each
other, and the role of power politics
in this, which forces us to use
words like weapons (things 1.
she noted that:
“Poets are more sane than most other
people...“,
“I am happy because I am doing what I
want to...“.

She was replying
to what she
called the fhcraycutic
approach to
rightly
disclaiming
the
poetry,
notion
that poetry
necessarily
comes from nc>urosis (a word she
used a lot).
When I read l’ok’cr Politics I was
confronted
with some of the
realities
of my relations
with
others, both men and women. It is
because margaret
atwood and I
both have experienced
some of the
effects
of the
machine-like
marketplace
that she as poet and I
as readf?r can begin to make
contact. Rejecting a self-centered
subjectivism,
as the reader, which
compliments
the thingifying of art,
doesn’t in any way lessen the
creative,
sensuous experience
of
the reading.
It expands
the
meaning of the poems in Power
Politics because it begins to catalyse a process that stirpasses the
deadendedness
of relati.ng
to
others
with
detachment
and
.games.
The question is not who is more
sane or happy but, if this is valued,
how to do everything
possible, in
art and science to facilitate
this.
Atwood seemed to thirik that her
clear commitment
to sanity and
happiness, in a world where power
politics makes, in her words “no
place safe”, has no affinity with
politics, science, etc.
I don’t agree. But this says more
about me than atwood, so that
should
be understood.
But a
review,
like a poem, can be a
medium, even a gift.
james harding

-

I am going into my garden.
My garden
is a magic garden
filled
with weird and wonderful
things
not the-least
of which
is Charlie.
Charlie
is a unicorn,
a lavender
unicorn
with a big shiny cork-screw
in the middle
of his forehead.
-Charlie?
Charlie?
where
are you Charlie?
I wander
through
the petunias,
pansies
and pommegranites
(which
I had my own sweet time growing
on account
of this aint Algeria).
I
walk through
cherry-red
grass
over caramel
hills under
a lemon-drop
yellow sky. looking
for ... Charlie.
.

behind

the

-I know
where
jolly-old-flowering

he is.
arbutus.

He’s

hiding.

Sulking

and

skulking

Jolly-old-flowering-arbutus.
Purple
mist
hangs
in folds.
itself and dissolves
away. Its Charlie!!!
Charlie’s
in a good
mood.
He wants
to play
at chess.
Charlie’s
a good chess player on account
of he’s got Russian blood in him.
And Russians
are good chess
players.
I know
that
it is true
because
Charlie
told me so.
Knight
to King’&Bishop
three.
Check.
Mate. Oh well blew
another
one.
-1 ets play baseball.
Charlie‘s
a great pitcher.
A regular
cork-screwed,
clumpy-hoof~ed,
Suspends

-..~

,I\

Charlie wants to talk now..Jt seems that Charlie
always wq@s,,:
to talk. I really don’t want to hear him. He always speaks of the same th&&.
:j ;.~
He feels persecuted.
2~: 1 :’ ~
You see he’s a lavender
unicorn
when
all about
him &$@”
shocking-pink
unicorns.
You probablv
didn’t
know it but shockina
r&W+*
- ------* f”““-+?~?~
.
unicorns
ore considerable
in n’umber.‘They’re
all over the place. But @$&.
: rare day when you run into a lavender
unicorn
like Charlie.
Anyway
they’re
after him. They’re
trying
to get him. And%b&t
;.. .~
I \I.;
:,y
#lie is here - in my garden.
$,%; B .
sn’t my garden
really, its mostly
Charlie’s.
Charlie
contrc&‘ii$
’ Th.ey say that environment
determines
person‘ality.
B ut that isn’t tru&Mv

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1971

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491

7

Influence

of japanese

I love you.
Diamonds
fall
in the morning

Haiku

on a Canadian

Lover

sitting in the backyard
with a can of beer in my right hand,
a volume of Fob&t
Frost in my left, and Dylan Thomas
on the grass

dew.
We make love.
. . Roses bloom
on my window

. .._.,.......

remembering
those singing
hours
playing with-love
and songs
threwing
them in the cherry
tree
your sun blowing
hair kissing
the leaves
as we laughing
in. the limber boughs
and dancing
on the rays
in those cherry
golden days,
and the ocean bright
nights
on the linen light sands
your moon white waving
hands
v
calling me to the moon lit sea
waking
on the waves in the gold rise
seeing miracles
in your eyes.

That was long ago,
perhaps
memory
gives- you
a metaphorical
hue.
Those cherry
boughs
won’t swing me now
I wear saftey wings in the public pool.
But 1 can feel you, now and then, even now
touching
me Ii ke a butterfly
on chrysanthemum.

penetrating
slither
the appearance
of my futyre
transformed,
and its future
swallowed.
‘-7 my transformation
One step - the world rises and rolls
/ dare not move.
I am not Christ,
my friend.
The waters do not respect
me.

-

R. K. Radu

Through
white china rooms,
Under tissue
paper ceilings,
We wandered
like novice artists in a foreign gallery,
Pondering
the strange and wonderful
promises
on the wallsChildren’s
drawings
painting
Many promises:
/
Of sun honey meadows
Where the hair of the little blonde girls
Grows and weaves itself into beckoning
waves of golden

I

THE

CRIPPLE

I have seen the cripple
society
keeps
And smugly
says he has no feet,
Or the women
who has no eyes
Or cannot
hear her children
cry.
I grow weary of societie’s
lies,
It’s infirmaments,
it’s disguise.

And of enchanted
felt board forests,
Homes of mortar
board magicians
Who carry with ease the heavy platinum
keys
To doors of_ an ice-chandeliered
mansion
Where miniature
servants
hold up looking glasses
Tinted with favourite
colours;

I have seen a man with poles for feet
Walk down a windy and merciless
street.
With every terrible
perilous
gust,
His body turns and sways and thrusts
And yet the street
below him fades away
And the cold sky above in hommage
sways,
For his mind is his lair.
He feels no despair.

And finally of the heroic lapse
Into the mourning
of nightThe dignified
entombment
Within
a mahogany
library
of unread
precious

0 frightened
and vain society watch this man.
From despair
returned
he offers us his hand.
And in these wild, perilous
Decembers,
What God forgot, the cripple
remembers.

As we passed, the promises
floated from the wallsSighing steam.leaving
moist outlines
dripping,
Running
from the mirror
of a chipped
plate.

Laurie

Mark

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One day, half a year ago,
I felt your silence
.
in the feverish
sun
when I was sifting
sand
through
my fingers.
then you told me of life in Nam
a&you
waxed your red surf board
and I felt like a babe
in awe of your experiences.
In those two days
I was captured
by the caress of your
and your beautiful
understanding
of life ’
but when I had to go
my limbs and Soul were saying
“hello”
but my lips said “good-bye”

DENIAL

fingertips

Sometimes
I.want
to travel
those thousand
miles
between
us
and touch
your existance
but now I pray you will write
and hope you will not.
joanie

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FOR

F.J.R.

There are those who grieve and
candles,
moments
of light
in a cloud-mantled
sky;
but I cannot
laud you
with the voice of Vergil
lamenting
the young Marcellusthe grace of the Mantuan
is not mine.

I

speak

of brief

Gloria

Cutting.pain
numbs
my mind,
and my soul refuses
to accept this decree;
should
the gods love
those who die young
(fantasy
of poets)
then you were loved
with a love
greater
than mine and
more enduringbut you were Iphigenia,
driven
helplessly
to the holy altar.

We belong to a different
love
mine, the love from which escape
is the single happiness
yours, the love of woman
for men
as companion
in clay and lover
bY day
flying from lovers is bringing
me endless
lusty nights
back broken
springboard
of bedrooms
peeling back the sheets and coating
last nights smile with daylight
revealing
rows and rows
of even teeth and blood red gums
stained
by my staying
and silently
chewing
the flesh which
I lost in the fight.

like that other death
so long ago,.
death of the young
could have lived so much,
down in violence.

ion mcgill

No time to seek,
no timeJerusalem
cowers
at the dawn,
every light of heaven
weeps,
alone , unw,atched;
never will the grave open to Eternity,
revealing
you one last time.
Could I sing the mournful
melody,
I could not find words
to mouth in torment,
enough-it
must be enoughto stand at dusk
amid the voices of strife
and offer the final
Ave atque Vale.
Gloria

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At University

Despair demands
The lost
Not found
To be forgotten
Only to itself
A person being
Forever unmindalthough
the life
Reality.
Am I the key
Or lock attached
Within
the without
A sane moment
Latched not to
But hidden as found
New dreams of Hell.
Is life not true
As sense forgotten
My mind-mineNot minus to you
For every dead soul
Not lost forgiven
As God is dead
He
Man has
Resu rected
Alive in Spirit
Dead to the World
To be born.

Ken

Mundi

494

,

Mundi

Morning

Tears will not silence
cries sounded
in anger,
but tears are all to offer,
torn by this senseless
waste,
this meaningless
lossyet tears only add sorrow
to enlarge
the void.
It is
not
the
who
taken

The still sea stands about your trembling
foot
and holds you there,
motionlessa marble
pillar stretching
high
to meet the loving breezes;
Nunc te cognovi,
and what I see
is life, to end this funereal
lament
within
my minda water offering
to me, to drink thankful
if my soul is dry,
if I reach out to take thecup.
You smile...how
I have seen
that smile before and never assented,
how you have offered
me sea-winebefore,
and I never assented.
The taste of salt-spray
touches
iightly
lips which must touch yours’in
turna triumphal
procession,
momentary,
of affinity
in a sea-chilled
space;
the tide (I know)
will leave
us soon, to caress another’s
naked soul,’
somewhere
else, centuries
from now;
never
uniting
us again, taking
this moment
j
back to the ocean, stealing
my love...
Barren
sand, the wind cools the sun-baked
sod,
the gulls go somewhere
else;
your kiss answers
my solemn
question
and quells the doubt within
my soul,
the sea still holds you fast, and I kneel
to assent,
and you are gone.
t-low often have I seen that sea
and yet deny its existence.

Lalonde

You the forks
and I the spoons
and of course
we’ll always
be friends
You the saucers
I the plates
and there will always
be some love for you
You the forks
and I the spoons
and be sure to call
when you need me
and that’s
the first
of a thousand
cliches
But you the saucers
and4 the plates
,
and I know our tears
are made of glass
I and you will pass
. out of my life
as eas.ily
./
as this room

I turn my face to the window
for there are tears about it
and in your eyes
I’m afraid of not seeing love
snowflakes
fall
mad wallflowers
in solitary
dance
the earth a trampled
kitchen
floor
in the window
my wet face
and tears I cry for you
are tears cried alone.

terry

harding

I

terry
False

Persuasion

What shall I do
with the one who eats my poetry
at supper
smiles, then tucks in her stomach
digesting
words and images
looking out the window
for lovers
passing by in heat
she reads my poems once a week
for old times sake
pretending
she can feel the pressure
my loves on her thighs
wishing she had felt the presence
of my eyes on her

harding

Through
tinted
eyes
I see your face.
The rumbling
of your mind,
The rumbling
of your mind
Is the prelude
to the storm.
With warmth
you clasp
My hand;
My thoughts
are
fleeting
moments
Of hope.
The future
is but the
dying embers
of the past.
Mike

1

Kite

-

All the trees and birds
I had warm arms,
And you knew you were
And I Adonis.
But still you lay,
Just out of reach of my
Staring
at a kite,
On a long, white string,
a kite, flopping
gayly in
gay at suddenly
finding
free from its master.
Craig

Rohatynsky

sang,
Aphrodite

wal m arms,

the clouds,
itse f

millage

of

younger
and younger,
we stifle
the ancients
to die in the pitfalls
of our bones
wracked
with pain, flowing black between
the candy coloured
sheets
which she washes twice a day
.in hopes the drain can suck my love away.

ion mcgill

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9 november

1971

(12:249)

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culture .and creativity...
Nowhere
more than in the universities
have
potentially
creative
people been bound by the
perceptual limitations
of bourgeois culture. For too
long artists and poets have been idealized through
the medium of lectures,
profs, and booklearning.
Some of the ideologues would have us identify with
cheap images of hip-sexists
and pseudo-leftists,
while the poet-laureates
would have us idealize
stereotyped
images of reflective,
brooding artists
sensitively
removed from the mainstream
of life
(as well as fear long-haired
weirdos).
It’s about
time we dethroned our cultural leaders (and we do
accept their leadership every time we pay passive
homage to them in lectures
and textbooks).
Creativity
cannot flow from the ivory towers of the
university-or
any sturctur&,
for that matter,
which so ingrain our psyches into the dominant
culture.
Sure, on some levels within the system we experience and express the existential
realities
of
fleeting joys, loneliness, suffering and fear. But the
material
structures
of our lifestyles
within the
system determine
our sensitivity
and awareness.
As we go about our jobs and-come
home to our
families day-in and day-out how can we presume to
be artists and poets-in
our spare time? From
where can creativity
flow if our only conscious
touch with the universe
is a drive through the
country in our cars; or our only touch with the most
dynamic
social processes is through the passive
consumption
of television and textbooks?
One hundred years ago Henry David Thoreau
marvelled at the wasted energies of societies whose
Bill Moyers
quit
his job as a
special
assistant
to LBJ when
it
finally dawned
on him, as a civil
service
bureaucrat,
that
people
* aren’t statistics.
Consequently,
he
we,nt on to travel the length and
breadth
of America
to discover
what was true about the people.
One morning
at 3:oO am he was
awakened
by three young
blacks
who asked him, “Are you the cat
doing
the
thing
for
the
magazine?”
When
Moyers
answered yes they handed him the
following
peep
addressed
to
“Apolitical
Intellectuals”:
One day
The apolitical
Intellectuals
Of my country
Will be interrogated
By the simplest
of our people.
They will be asked
What they did
When our nation
died out
Slowly,
I ike a sweet fire
Small and alone.
No one will ask them
About
their dress,
Their long siestas
After lunch.
No one will want to know
about their sterile
combats
With “the idea
Of the Nothing.”
No one will care about
Their
higher
financial
learning.
They won’t be questioned
On Greek mythology
.
Or regarding
their self:disgust
When
someone
within
them
Begins to die
The coward’s
death.

1

They will be
About
their
Horn in the
Of the total

asked
absurd
shadow
lie.

On that day
The ,simplest

men

evdrevo

But such personal revolutions
are happening on
many fronts.
In the most blatantly
supressed
societies men are risking immediate
death rather
than endure the endless suffering and indignities of
imperialism
and colonialism.
And here, at the heart
of the beast, thousands of kids are saying no to more
subtle forms of oppression:
the family, schools, and
jobs. Rather than accept the myths which have
perpetuated
bourgeois society : success, material
happiness,
happy-ever-afterness
in marriage,
progress
and democracy-they
are facing the
reality.
This is not to say that their break from the system
has beeti complete, or even that conscious. Twenty
years of competitive,
ego-shattering
socialization
is
not easily transformed
to a new awareness.
For
many, the reality
of standing
outside of the
dominant culture is too great, and vulnerable to old
anxieties and fears, they return
to the relative
security
of the old forms, or escape altogether
through insanity or drugs.
But saying “no” to oppression
is the potential
beginning of the creative process. Slaves can only
write about suffering,
death, and “dreams”
of
freedom, but free men, finally coming to grips with
existence, can create something new.
The following selection of poems reinforce
my
contention that, foremost,
artists have to be living
creative
lives, and in this historical, period that
must involve
a revolution
against
a societal
structure
which has reached a dead end.

sole preoccupation
was with maintaining
their
material existence through work. And what else are
cities all about-producing
and consuming.
What
and For What? How free is man when at a
technological
level he has developed
machines
which could free him from work, but continues tp
support a social system which chains him to work?
When the work ethic is so strong, despite the
emptiness
of most jobs we must ask ourselves
serious questions about the psychological
processes
which function to keep us at alienating work. When
in a social-world
context of war, nuc.lear and biochemical weapons, threatened
ecological‘ disaster,
population explosion and “1984”, the promise of
pension plans hold us to 40 years of drudgerywhere is our awareness? Are we not psychologically
chained to our illusions?
All of us have been emasculated
through our utter
dependance upon the dominant culture. We are not
free,
no matter
what
religious
myths
or
sophisticated
rationalizations
we turn to for comfort. In the face of existential
realities-living
and
dying-we
are petty and alone, if we dare face it. All
of us in the dominant culture are afraid of freedom,
for because
tie know \ nothing
else, capitalist
bourgeois culture (with all its cons&quent evils) is
our womb.
The synthesis
of idealism,
awareness,
and
courage it takes to break our way out of that worinb
is nothing short of revolutionary,
for we have to do it
alone, without alternatives.
The system has not
provided us with alternatives.

by peter

culture

For four or five years
“the
revolution”
was a concept
perceived
largely
in
politicaleconomic
terms,. and held by a
minority
of campus radicals. Now,
it seems, a definite culture
has
emerged
from that era of confrontation,
more unconscious
than
conscious,
and embracing
a new
set of values and social structures.
But how has this happened, and
why? It’s almost as is, while the
politicos
assumed
the rhetorical
and organizational
leadership
of
the campus movement,
a broader
base of politically-aware
people
had forsaken
the degrees
and
positions that had brought them to
the campus,
and had begun to
create a new lifestyle.
Co-ops and

communes
are no longer
the
transitory
means for poor students
to meet payments
on the way to a
big job. Now they are seen as a
way of life by’ many people who
talk about “alternatives
to the
family
and consumer-spending.”
The question I would like to ask
is whether
what we have experienced
is really an evo-revolutionary
development,
or like the
confrontations
of three years ago,
will it pass? I think that it’s about
time that revolutionary
culture
began
some kind
of dialogue
concerning
its ideas, values, and
development.
(Or
is such
a
proposal too heavy to handle along
with the immediate
preoccupation
of developing
“revolutionary
culture”. . . )

will

the

chew&

’

hostile

nations

In view of the fading animals
the proliferation
of sewers
and
fears
the sea clogging
the air
nearing
extinction
we should
be kind, we should
take warning,
we should
forgive
each other
Instead we are opposite,
we
touch
as though
attacking,
the gifts we bring
even in good faith maybe
warp in our hands to
implements,
to manoeuvres

,

See, we are alone\ in
the dormant
field, the snow
that cannot
be eaten or captured

come.

-

are

this aerial photograph
(your vulnerable
sections
marked
in red)
I have found
so useful

Here there
here there
It is cold

are no armies
is no money
and

getting

colder

We need each others’
breathing,
warmth,
surviving
is the only war
we can afford,
stay

And they’ll a’sk:
“What did you do when the poor
Suffered,
when tenderness
And life
t3urned out in them??”

496

They

Put down the target of me
you guard inside your binoculars,
in turn I will surrender

Those who had no place
In the books and poems
Of the apolitical
intellectuals,
But daily delivered
Their bread and milk,
T-heir tortillas
and eggs,
Those who mended their clothes,
7 hose who drove
their cars,
Who
cared
for their
dogs and
gardens
And worked
for them.

12

/he experience
of being the actual medium for a
~0f~tinuaI
process
of creation
takes one past all
ticprc.5.~ion or persecution
or vain glory, past even,
chaos or emptiness,
into the very mystery
of that
continua/
flip of nonbeing
into being, and can be
~/JP occasion
of that great liberation
when one
n~ntlcs the transition
from being afraid of nothing,
to the realization
that there is nothing
to fear.
Nel~ertheless,
it is very easy to lose one’s way at
hny stage, and especially
when one is nearest.

2

nothing
justifications-

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walking
with me, there
time /if we can only
make it as far as
the

layout

and

graphics

by peter

lang

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(possibly)

last

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summer

Margaret

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joining,
forever
gaining
towards

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joining,
length,
inf in ity.....

And
YOU
somewhere
wondering

.
on this

continuum

where
it began
when
it was not.
And
YOU
wondering
how
it is held together
And
if
it can fall apart,
and leave you timeless
like an ancient
Mayan,
who had his balam,
his guardian
of time
that left him free
NOT
inexorably
entwined
in its length
by the mechanical
hands
of a metal god,
.
always
pointing,
always
reminding
us
that time is

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tuesday

9 november

1971

(12:2.9)

497

13

Hindsight
You need my thoughts
you sayIn truth
I think you need them
Badly, as some mad urge.
Coursing
through
you want them,
Quickly,
grabbing,
Blind to fruit hues
You glut yourself
on peelings.
You need them sure enough,
Quintessentially
if you please.
A line, a phrase,
A quick summation
Makes fuel for firing
Other
minds--you
say
‘I know him well’.
Gorging,
bolting,
Like some wild dog
Salivating
over so much
Cubed beef.
Slower chewing
might betray
Crabbed
pastures
or the butcher’s
Whence
it came.
Dancing,
singing,
Forms and finery
laugh home
All becomes
you,
All comes to you.
Quick-clutching
you go,
Some girl’s school product
Selling stolen wares.
As if by right
You reach to sample
summer’s
As if by secret
merit
You curl contentedly
on winter’s
Sweat stacked
these stones,
Crushed
grapes,
drew waterBut for this?

block

to you.

wine;
hearth.

Less than line-collector,
Squandering
truths
amidst
the mob
And noisy rattle of the beer hall.
Like fine lingerie
Half-hiding
hungry
limbs,
Pure embellishment-an
incidental
That entices.
Mere words you takeEmpty
baskets
well-wickered
Yet bereft of all that lives.
Sweet honey issues from your
But what of bees, work, death
Teeming
clovered
afternoonsMere garbage
stuff?

lipsand

Forty cretins
in some inner sphere,
Long suffering,
Unadmired,
Cry out in grim disgust.
We laboured
hard,
Sank shafts, drew blood,
Went where
no other soul dared go.
All this to lie in stony corridors,
Cold corners
where
Like ogres kept
In secret places
We content
ourselves
with rationed
Cramped
quarters
And your fawning
love.

feeding,

Back so soon?
_
Your spirit tired from heavy trading.
Arms outstretched,
Shopping
bag well hid,
The master
comes as mistress.
A kiss, some sorrow,
gentle weepingLove floods the market
once again.
David

Back page journal

credit for october

co-ordinated

14

498

the

J. Cubberley

- 1971

-.

26 edition to Terry Harding.

by Steve izma,

peter

lang, ion mcgill,

b. geoffroy,

dj. Osborne,

mary e. holmes,

robin

briggs,

terry harding,

a. di franc0

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P 010 -split
The warriors
water polo squad
won one and lost one over the
weekend
in their first
league
outing in hamilton.
The
mcmaster
marauders,
bolstered. by four of this year’s
pan-am team trounced
the locals
14-5 in the first game.
After the first quarter the score
was only 2-l for the steel city gang
but the roof fell in during the
second quarter
and also in the
fourth when the warriors
were
unable to stay with the superior
mcmaster
squad.
One member of the warriors said
after the match that the boys just
couldn’t get their game together;
and with them not used to the
rougher brand of polo played by
the marauders
it was evident more
work will be needed to get the
home squad in condition for the
rematch next weekend in london.
match
the
In the second
warriors won 10-5 over the guelph
gryphons.
The game was less of a blood
bath for the warriors
and no
scratching,
bathing suit ripping or
fighting was evidenced
as there
was in the game with mat.
Tony kotstyzo
played between
the guelph posts and was a good
test for the uniwat
forwards,
although
his absence from the
forward line lessened the gryphons
power down the middle.
The next warrior
outing is at
western
Ontario
next weekend
when they again take on mcmaster
- and western, who also is blessed
with a pan-am star.

Waferbabies
in series
With
the
world
champion
chevron
waterbabies
winning
ways finally recognized
as being
above water, the challenges
kept
rolling in last week. ’
In order to make the contests as
fair as can be expected and so all
have the right to meet the greatest
team remaining
on earth, a round
robin series has to be established.
The first such match will pit the
“wild gang” of south-3 village one
murray
led by b. “mad man”
against
the dasteredly
north-4
team who, with their heads in the
clouds, believe they are spirited by
god. Well, good for them !
Game time as usual, is 7: 32 pee
em Wednesday
in the uniwat
natatorium.
The waterbabies
will
be in full vocal support
of the
looser and *may assist in other
ways as yet unknown.

Hockey

sport of

Chevron

the day

by jacque strappe
the chevron

Kiss in the ring

Women Intramurals
Last tuesday
and thursday
nights were great girl watching
nights in the main gymnasium
as
the women’s intramural
volleyball
league got underway. All six courts
were busy from 7 : 30-9 : 00 pm both
nights :with a different version of
the old bump and grind routine.

this direction
and join in.

why not come

out

Actually
there appears
to be
some pretty fair volleyball
talent
around the campus and it looks as
though it will be an interesting
season.
After one night of play village 2
west is on top in league a. Their
placement
there
however
was
probably disappointing
for them as
all the teams they were scheduled
to play defaulted. Let’s get on the
bit tonight-village
&north,
phys
ed, and off-campus-no
more
defaults.
In the b league, renison came on
strong with three big wins to start
the season on top of their league.
Play continues
this week so if
you are not playing, take a little
time to come over to phys ed and
cheer on your favourite
team.
The women’s ret basketball
got
underway
on thursday
when approximately
thirty women showed
up for the scheduled 9:15 games.
The competition is fairly good, so if
you like basketball why not come
out tonight and be assigned to a
team.
The women seem to be overly
active this term so yet another
activity
has been added to the
already busy schedule-women’s
recreational
hockey-ice
that is.
This takes place at queensmount
arena on fridays between 12 : Oo2 :00 pm. If you have some talent in

You must supply all your own
equipment.
If looking for a ride
down, cars will be leaving the side
of the athletic complex building at
11: 30 am. For more information
contact sally kemp, ext 3533.

The group
is still
in the
organizational
stages so it will be
just pick up games for the first few
weeks, after that games will be
arranged according to the levels of
ability.

This is a social diversion in which the players must be on sufficiently
intimate terms to render familiarity
inoffensive.
Then, engaged in which
spirit and good temper, it furnishes fine fun out in the open, especially to
the young adults of either sex. One player stands in the centre of the ring
formed by the rest of the players, who join hands, and extend as widely as
possible in formation.
Sometimes the game is played to the accompaniment
of a play-song, in
which the isolated participants
is enjoined, vocally and musically,
to
“choose the pretty girl” he “likes best.” This done, he advances and
touches one of the ring, who must then break away from the hands she
has been holding-the
ring immediately
closing up-and
run around
about, to avoid capture, and if she can-and
desires so to do-before
being held, regain a position as part of the ring by breaking the hold of
two players and taking a hand of each, thus reforming the circle. Then the
pursuer ‘must commence all over again.
If the chosen be caught, she is led triumphantly
into the centre of the
ring and kissed. Immediately
thereafter,
her capturer joins the circle and
she becomes in turn chooser and pursuer,
with renewed singing and
merriment.
Sometimes the chosen is, perhaps after giving a good run for
the fun of it, an easy capture.
That depends upon who the pursuer may be. But affability and an even
distribution
of the sexes are essential to the success and the charm of the
simple old pastime, which is a survival of the old english may games,
themselves an adaptation of amusements of far more ancient date.

Squash tourney
There is an entry of 110 people in
this fall’s . singles squash tournament and it all begins tonight at
7:OO, starting
with the men’s intramural
draw.
The women’s competition
begins
tomorrow
with the faculty,
staff
and varsity
on thursday.
Times
have been arranged
for each
match and the matches will begin
within 10 minutes of the scheduled
time.
Tardy
players
will be
defaulted.
During
the competition,
the
draw will be posted in the open
squash gallery ‘and players are to
submit their scores to the scorer.
For any other information,
contact
the intramural
dept (ext. 3532).

About 500 fans and a noisy band
trooped over to the Waterloo barn
to witness a sloppy brand of hockey
demonstrated
by the warriors with
some help from
the western
mustangs.
The warriors
were
defeated 6-3 by a mediocre group
from london.
S
The hard-hitting
game produced
seventeen penalties. Seven went to
the hosts and ten to the visitors.
Although the western grapes had
little skill to demonstrate,
they had
little trouble skating around the
Waterloo
pucksters
who showed
little cohesion but many mistakes.
The first period ended with a 3-l
score. Another was added in the
second to up the western tally to
four with the warriors
not answering at the end of the second.
The Waterloo
defense
looked
slow with
only two platoons
available
for this scrimmage.
Future games should see the full
squad appearing with the final cuts
being made soon. This loss marked
the first for the warriors
on home
ice in over two years of play.
Warrior
marksmen
were roger
kropf,
morris,
and darcy.
The
home team was outshot 47-33.

Take a break...
Come stroke a g.ame

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9 november

1971

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a
technique
of ACTJON,
as taught by .
MAHARISHl
‘MAHESH
YOGI, is a
natural and spontaneous
technique
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Today’s
opener,
although
an
exhibition
bout for the basketballing squad, should indicate the
successes to be expected from the
team which is being led by rookie
coach don mc crae.
After the initial cut, the nine
freshmen
hopefuls
were cut to
three. Coach mc crae considers it
remarkable
that any first year
students
were included
in the
final sixteen because of the high
incidence of returnees.
Phil gogins
from the windsor area, phi1 schlote
of forest heights in kitchener
and
bill lozynski (brother of the former
warrior
star) were the chosen
freshmen.
Returning
players include jaan
lanniste two time scoring leader in
the OQAA league and three time
winner of the most valuable player
award. Tom kieswetter
will also be
evident on the floor as once again
the fans will be treated
to his
superb ball handling.
While most of the teams are busy
rebuilding,
the- warriors
are ’
overloaded
with returning
players
with past experience in the league.
Missing from the line-up will be
walt lozynski who has to sit out the
season because of an eligibility
problem.

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Coach don sees the squad as
short on height but hopes the experience and respect the players
hold for each other on the court will
more than compensate
for ‘this
slight shortcoming.
The italian
junior team showed emphatically
that standing height is not the only
factor
involved
in backboard
control. So all is not despair on the
problem of short players.
Ernie hehn, bill ross, and footballer bill ross all stand 6’5” and
will be vying for the position of
center in tonight’s game.
Macmaster,
York,
toronto,
western and windsor are all busy
attempting to build a cohesive unit
with new and untried players, but
the lutheran golden hawks true to
their former ways in the recruiting
department
have secured
the
services
of at least two players
with many years of college experience and ranks as one of the
teams to beat. The warrior-golden
hawks match
on november
-23
should produce a good battle.
Don mc crae, fresh off a series of
high school coaching successes in
this area and a short while with the
national team on the playing end,
brings another
approach
to the
Waterloo campus as he represents
the third basketball
coach in four
seasons. Tonght’s
opposition
will
be the ever
powerful
york
university
squad in toronto.
First home game will take place
this friday
against
the visiting
university
of Winnipeg.

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Eleven schools and 69 runners
appeared on Columbia field for the
first running of the QUAA cross
country
c’hampionships
last
Saturday.
Thirty
minutes
after the gun
sounded, grant mclaren
of the
university
of western
Ontario
crossed the line minutes ahead of
his closest rival to claim the first
place position and lead western to
the team championship.
Former
warrior
trackster
and cross
country
distance
ace sammy
pearson was the second western
runner in, placing seventh. Chris
bolter and rich houston ‘completed
western’s domination of the top ten
with their fifth runner finishing in
fourteenth
place.
Waterloo’s
first athlete to cross
the wire was dan anderson in 12th
and jon arnett, running
on anderson’s
heels throughout
the
gruelling 5% .mile race, 13th.
The course began on the plains of
lake Columbia then took the runners up the steep incline
to
Columbia avenue and out toward
the railway
tracks.
All competi tiors
expressed
their
satisfaction
with the course and
were grateful for the lack of street
running so evident in many cross
country courses. The fences and
two water barriers,
across laurel,
made the event ‘a true cross
country course’, as one participant
commented.
All morning, prior to the run, the
sun shone brightly
on the course
and the athletes anticipated a good
effort.
Peter
olver
was the third
- Waterloo runner to appear on the
flat of Columbia field, but he too
was pursued
by a team-mate.
Freshman
mike kaine breathed
down Pete’s neck all the way to the
wire to finish only a second behind.
Dave
grant
rounded
out the
warrior
top five finishing in 42nd
place.
After the final tally, there was no
question that western,
the preevent favourites,
had captured the
competition
but there was a tie in
points for the second position. Both
guelph and Waterloo gained 106
points each. A new rule taking
effect this year rules the sixth
member of the teams tied as the
next
scoring
runner.
Guelph’s
sixth man finished
43rd while
Waterloo
sixth was ten places
behind, and the guelph group was
awarded
the second
position.
Western was miles ahead with only
39 points.
York university
placed fourth
with the university
of toronto a
disappointing
fifth.

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The October 29th issue of the
chevron carried an article by wes
darou castigating
the engineering
profession. Unfortunately,
a lot of
what he says is true. There are,
though, a few things that I would
like to query.
Why did you, mr. darou, single
out the engineers? Aren’t the same
maladies present amongst doctors,
lawyers,
architects,
computer
programmers
and any other
profession that you care to name?
You’ve also made some hasty
generalizations.
You’ve said that
for-real girls find engineers
dull.
Why is this?
,
This assumption
i based on
what one girl says. As .n engineer,
you should know better than to
base an assumption
on a sample
size of one.
I can think of a lot of people, both
male and female, who would be
more than willing to dispute that
point with you.
At the bottom of the right-hand
page of the article is a very hasty
generalization,to
wit the quotation
by mark twain.
You should- know better than
that, or was it a careless oversight.
I have known both professional
engineers
and students
who are
interested
and knowledgeable
about sports, music, art literature,
current events, etc.
Outside interests are one of the
few ways remaining
in order to
stay sane.
You also said, at the beginning of

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the article, that engineering - is a
capitalistic
ripoff. It may be a bad
example, but premier kosygin was
an engineer. Engineering
is simply
the application
of knowledge.
As
such, it cannot have any political
or economic considerations.
This is all very well, but mr.
darou does express a few truths.
The APE0
is a farce.
The
“engineering
mystique”
is carried
to the point of absurdity.
School is
a dream, although nightmarish
at
times.

Engineering

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I am overworked‘and
I do feel
alienated from girls. I’m not even
sure that I want to be an engineer
upon graduation.
I should get out,
but I won’t. I’m simply * doing
something I’m interested in. At the
end of it all’, I’ll get a piece of
parchment
(which I pay for) which
is next to worthless
and a great
deal of personal satisfaction
that
will make up for everything.
malcolm turner
2B them eng

good

reading The Engineering
I find myself
in the
totally new position of writing a
letter to the editor.
Although I agree with most of
your
stated
opinions
on
engineering,
management,
and
society, I disagree most heartily
with
your
apparent
attitude
towards those who choose to study
the application
of the laws of
nature to real-life situations.
You
appear to be too totally negative
towards engineering.
Why? .
Your article is good-so good you
may be turning
off “potential”
engineers. This is bad. If you don’t
know how engineering
works how
can you hope to fix it?
On capitalism-yes,
capitalism
is slowing
us down; but why?
Perhaps
if you read The Waste
,Makers you can dig the truth. The
‘problem is not the total responPlastiQue

suffer

but

too

negative

sibility of engineers, but the, total
responsibility
of the society.
As far as chopping down a tree
from the bottom
is \ concerned,
you’ll find that if you lop off the
limbs one-at-a-time,
the tree finds
itself in the position of having no
reason to stand so it falls down of
its own accord. (Swish).
Thot for the day-“You
can’t
rearrange
your living room furniture while sitting on the john.”
ed grant
4B mech eng

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c oNS’DER’NG

NEWFOUNDLANDS’
liberal-dominated
/
electoral
history,
it was a rout.
The
progressive
conservatives,
who
took only three out of 42 seats in the last
provincial
election,
stunned
the liberals
by winning
enough
seats to form
a
minority
government.
With all the votes
counted,
it stood at PCs 21 seats, liberals
20, and new labrador
party 1.
However,
the
margin
in
several
constituencies
was close enough
so that
recounts
were inevitable.
Smallwood
seemed
determined
to
hold onto
power,
and the change
of
government
might
have
to await
his
defeat in the house of assembly;
“I think
it’s going to take a charge of dynamite
to
shake him out of there,” john crosbie,
the
successful
conservative
candidate
in st.
john’s west, said friday.
But
there
was
no
mistaking
the
magnitude
of the PC victory.
Smallwood
took his own constituency
of placentia
east by only
190 votes.
Seven cabinet
ministers
and the speaker
of the house
were defeated.
The conservatives
took 52
per cent of the popular vote as compared
to 45 per cent for the liberals.
And the
turnout
was 87 per cent of eligible voters,
unprecedented
in newfoundland
(where
normal
turnouts
are around 65 per cent)
or anywhere
else- newfoundlanders
had
gone out in record numbers
to oust the
smallwood
government.

Only one casualty
The PCs suffered
only ‘one casualty
election
I night:
former
liberal
finance
minister
val earle, who crossed
the floor
of the house two years ago during
the
debates
over the shaheen
oi I refinery
deal, was defeated
in fortune
bay, which
he had won as a liberal in 1966 (although
he managed
to cut the overwhelming
liberal majority
of 1966, in an area that
has always been a bulwark
of smallwood
strength,
to 249 votes).
The only
other
major
conservative
figure to go down to defeat was robert
wells, a prominent
st. john’s lawyer, who
failed in his.attempt
to win a bonavista
seat.
The man who holds the balance
of
power
(at this writing)
is tom burgess,
leader of the new Iabrador
party,
like
crosbie
and earle an ex-liberal.
He too
quit the liberals in disgust over joey’s big
industrial
giveaways,
and formed
the
NLP for this election
as an outlet for the

feeling
among
people
in labrador
that
they have been ignored by the st. john’s
government.
Not only did burgess win his
own
seat of labrador-west,
defeating
labor minister
roy legge, but the NLP
made substantial
showings
in the other
two Iabrador
seats as well, and took an
overall
plurality
of Iabrador
votes.

Will bargain
Although
burgess
indicated
on
election
night that he was leaning toward
supporting
the PCs, he said the next day
that he would bargain
with either party.
It is extremely
unlikely,
however,
that he
would
make a deal with a liberal party
led by joe smallwood.
And even
in the improbable
event
that they do not get burgess’s
support,
the PCs might still be able to govern.
Two
of the liberal
members
elected
were
supporters
of john crosbie
when he ran
for
the
liberal
leadership
against
smallwood
in 1969 before
crossing
the
floor,
and would
probably
not vote to
defeat
a government
in which
crosbie
was a major figure.
There
was a definite
pattern
to the
results.
Smallwood’s
influence
in urban
centres
was eroded
completely.
Every
seat in st. john’s,
corner
brook,
grand
falls, and gander
went
overwhelmingly
conservative.
Even outside
the cities,
conservative
strength
varied
directly
as
the extent of urbanization
and industrialization.
The coastal
districts,
where
there
is
little, and few young voters because
the
young
people
have all gone elsewhere,
where people remember
the days before
1949 and
the
social-welfare
benefits
conferred
by confederation,
remained
in
the liberal column.
One
exception
is burgeo-lapoile,
which contains
the town of burgeo where
fish-plant
workers
have been on strike

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since early summer.
The result
in that
riding,
which
went
conservative
by a
reflects
the growth
as a
small margin,
force
in newfoundland
politics
of the
strongly
anti-smallwood
newfoundland
fishermen,
food,
and
allied
workers
Other
constituencies
that have
union.
been
the scene
of strikes
this
past
summer,
like grand falls and burin, also
went PC.

Favored
rural vote
\
Shrewd
politici-an
that he was, joey
saw the possibility
of a .decisive
urban
swing to the PCs years ago and rigged the
electoral
map solidly
in favor of the rural
vote. Urban ridings tend to be large (one
St, john’s
constituency
has
18,000
registered
voters)
while outport
districts
have as few as 3,000 voters.
This means
ttiat although
nearly one-quarter
of the
province’s
population
voted in st. john’s,
they could
elect only
six PC members
there.
It almost
worked.
Newfoundlanders
went to bed election
night thinking
the
liberals had a minority
government.
But
when the university
vote was, counted
the next morning,
one more crucial
seat
had swung to the PCs-St.
barbe south at
the southern
end of the avalon
peninsula, won
by ed maynard,
a NFFAW
organizer,
by a handful
of votes.
Adapted

from

CUP

Maynard
and tom burgess
would
be
NDP in any other province.
But the only
way’to start change in this province
is to
form a coalition:
the PCs are a melting
pot for all disenchanted
groups.
The provincial
NDP fared very badly,
receiving
fewer than 600 votes in every
riding it contested.
This does not reflect
on the future chances
of the party in any
way. People were not taking any chance
of splitting
the
anti-smallwood
vote;
even the labor leaders were solidly ,tory.
The
rationale
was
to
throw
out
smallwood,
let the people
accustom
themselves
to change,
and then try to
build a stronger
leftist
movement
here
for the next time.

Leadership problem
Smallwood
has said he will not contest
another
election,
and the liberals could
have
leadership
problems
as *several
potential
leadership
candidate&finance
minister
fred
rowe,
economic
development
minister
john nolan,
and
mines
minister
William
Callahan-went
down to defeat.
The conservatives,
with no Loyal civil
servants
and no experience
running
the
state machinery,
will have problems
of
their own.
Another
possible
source
of
tension is that the dominant
figure in the
party
has- not been the leader,
frank
moores,
but rather john crosbie.
Moores
has now built a strong base on the west
coast
of the
island;
his majority
in
humber
west
was the largest
in any
constituency
outside
st. john’s.
But the people of newfoundland
did
not vote for frank moores:
they voted
against
joey smallwood.

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Shook like a bowlful of jelly? can it be...winter? the whiteness that says purity cannot be taken
literaIly...like all decent lovers, whitenesstoowill
lose its appeaI...its purity will become dirtied by
time and neglect, it’s fresh face will grow dull and haggard, its tender caresses will turn to harsh
demands for our attention and we, fickle bedfellpws all, will turn our backs and wish once more for
sun and warmth....both greenpeace too and the planeful of candian scientists failed to make it to the
amchitka test site Saturday; that seemsto sum up the whole effect of the Canadian effort to become
involved with or heard by the americans...maybe
when we’re a state, they’ll pay more attention to
us...by the way, we got several letters from people who actually read this drivel: hi out there,
masthed fans, and keep those cards and letters coming in....chevron masthed wellesley farmer joke
of the week (weak?): q.-where
do you get steel wool? a.-it’s
the fleece from a hydraulic ram.
guffaw, guffaw...this episdoe of the bowery boys meet godzilla was brought to you by the friendly
folks down at your neighborhood:
jocks-george
neeland, sally kernp, ron smith and dennis mcgann (coordinator);
foto-Scott
gray
(snowed under), doug baird and gord moore (coordinator)
; entertainment-janet
stoody (first n’
foremost), lynn bowers, Susan minas, james harding, rick Powell and david cubberley (merry at
last); news-richard
Iloyd, denis green, gord moore, jim richardson, mart roberts, abie weisfeld,
alex smith (technical reviser) and george kaufman( production manager) ;joan and bill were here in
spirit, but of little comfort on a cold night. final thought for a long winter’s consideration:
happiness
is a warm puppy only if you happen to be a puppy. bibi, gsk.